Extraordinary Protagonists in Russian 19th Century Novel?
Valentino, Russell
russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU
Fri Dec 11 23:24:31 UTC 2009
Your student can also find a thread on the "osobennyi" Rakhmetov and others like him (so, a type) in Paperno's Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism, my own Vicissitudes of Genre in the Russian Novel (the chapter on the tendentious novel), and Andrew Drozd's What Is to Be Done? A Re-evaluation.
Russell Valentino
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Dear Andrey Shcherbenok,
I would recommend your student to start with these two classics (contrary to what their titles suggest, they do discuss the issue of typicality at some length):
Rufus W. Matthewson, "The Positive Hero in Russian Literature" (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1975).
Barbara Heldt, "Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature"(Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992 [1987]).
I also take the liberty of pitching my own study on the subject: "Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia: the Case of Mikhail Artsybashev's Sanin" (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).
Good luck!
Otto Boele
University of Leiden
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Dear colleagues,
I have a student in my class on Russian Novel in the 19th Century who wants to write his final essay on the significance of the extraordinariness of Russian protagonists and its implications for, for example, the possibility to consider them representatives of social "types." My problem is that his Russian is not good enough to read Russian language scholarship I am familiar with which addresses these issues; I wonder if someone could suggest possible readings in English I can recommend to him?
Thank you very much in advance.
Andrey
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] how would you translate this word
At 03:35 AM 12/4/2009, you wrote:
>In response to this I would respectfully suggest that Ñ...ам [cham]* is
>itself perhaps an 'old-school' word. At any rate it is the sort of
>word I associate with persons of a certain age and disposition
>bemoaning the declining standards of behaviour among the younger
>generation. For this reason I would be somewhat cautious about using
>some of the stronger terms that have been suggested, and especially
>those with overt sexual
connnotations.
Thank goodness someone finally wrote the word in
an alphabet I can get in my Eudora. Cham was one of my many guesses.
Okay, first of all, the word comes from the Old Testament Kham, traditionally spelled Ham in English. This word was used in english as well, but is truly obsolete in that meaning.
How about "nimrod"--another OT character, and a word I have actually heard used by the "narod" in contemporary AmEnglish.
Jules Levin
>John Dunn.
>
>* Dr Johnson was at one time known as the Great Cham of Literature,
>though here the word is, apparently, a corruption of 'khan'.
>
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>Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:54:55 +0200
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] how would you translate this word
>
>If you want to use modern English and not go all old-school, I'd suggest:
>Tool.
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>On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Katya Burvikova
><seacoastrussian at yahoo.com>wrote:
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> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > how would you translate word "Ñ...ам" in
> English? Is there any equivalent noun
> > (not adjective)?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Ekaterina Burvikova
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> >
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